I used to be an avid skier as a kid. I was at the top of a beautiful powder bowl. I started going down and near immediately hit a chunk of ice hiding under the powder and down down down I went. I tumbled from the top of the bowl until the ground got flat enough for me to slow down. I was the definition of rag-doll physics. People were picking up my equipment as they skied down.
Didn’t get hurt somehow.
Now I shudder thinking of the damage skiing can cause. If I fell like that now, would I still bounce back up unhurt?
I used to be an avid skier as a kid. I was at the top of a beautiful powder bowl. I started going down and near immediately hit a chunk of ice hiding under the powder and down down down I went. I tumbled from the top of the bowl until the ground got flat enough for me to slow down. I was the definition of rag-doll physics. People were picking up my equipment as they skied down.
Didn’t get hurt somehow.
Now I shudder thinking of the damage skiing can cause. If I fell like that now, would I still bounce back up unhurt?
Generally no, simply because you are now heavier and taller and longer-limbed and as a result all the injury-causing forces are much larger.
I’ve seen kids try and do a backflip and land on their neck and get up laughing. If I tried that? I’d be fuckin’ DEAD.
If you rag doll again you may be fine, people hurt themselves when they lockup falling. Try penguining next time.
Oh, so that’s what tux racer was about 🤔
https://youtu.be/7aUGBT1DZDI